Mairia Cahill Secures Seanad Seat

13 November 2015

Mairia Cahill's ruling out a Dáil bid following her election to Seanad Eireann. The anti-abuse campaigner was elected for Labour on the first count to take the seat of Jimmy Harte. The Belfast woman ran a campaign where she refused to give interviews or participate in debates over her previous involvement in a dissident Republican group. Mairia Cahill says she wants people to judge her on her future in the Seanad rather than a mistake she made in the past...